Our Research

HKSH Eastern Medical Centre is committed to:

Nurturing an environment that promotes research, collaboration, and clinical excellence as an exchange platform of medical advances;
Sharing the research and clinical outcomes and inviting overseas and local leaders of the field to conduct seminars and training; and
Translating clinical researches to application and thus benefitting our patients from these advances, as research is an essential part of our mission.

Year	Date	Event	Speaker(s)	Programme
2014	11 December 2014	Scientific Seminar - Clinical Application and Advances in Proton Therapy
		Various Clinical Commissioning Aspects of Modulated Scanning Systems	Dr. Jonathan FARR, PhD Chief of Radiation Physics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
		Proton Therapy Treatment Planning for Head & Neck Cancer	Dr. Martin BUES, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Physics, Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA
		Dealing with Organ Motion during Proton Therapy Treatment with Scanning Pencil Beam	Dr. Michael HERMAN, PhD Professor and Chair, Division of Medical Physics, Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
	16 June 2014	PYNEH-HKSH Joint Seminar on Advances in Radiation Oncology
		Advances in Head & Neck Radiation Therapy	Professor William M. MENDENHALL, MD Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine – Jacksonville, University of Florida
		Advances in the Management of Lung Cancer by Proton Therapy	Professor Joe Y. CHANG, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA (MDACC); Clinical Section Chief, Thoracic Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, MDACC; Director, Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, MDACC
		Proton Beam Therapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma	Professor Nobuyoshi FUKUMITSU, MD Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Japan
		The Role of Adjuvant Radiation for Soft Tissue Sarcomas	Professor Thomas F. DELANEY, MD Andres Soriano Professor, Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School; Radiation Oncologist, Department of Radiation Oncology; Medical Director, Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center; Co-Director, Centre for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
	15 June 2014	HKSH Symposium on Advances in Cancer Management
		Advances and Opportunities for Liver Cancer Management	Professor FAN Sheung Tat Director, Liver Surgery Centre Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
		Personalise Medicine for Lung Cancer: Where We Are and Where We Want To Be	Professor Tony SK MOK Professor, Department of Clinical Oncology Prince of Wales Hospital The Chinese University of Hong Kong
		Treatment of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by Tomotherapy: The HKSH Experience	Dr. Daniel TT CHUA Associate Director, Comprehensive Oncology Centre (Radiotherapy) Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
		Recent Advances in Paediatric Oncology Management	Professor Godfrey CF CHAN Head of Department, Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital The University of Hong Kong
		Proton Therapy: Promise, Practice and Priorities	Professor Nancy P. MENDENHALL, MD Medical Director, University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, Jacksonville, FL, USA; Associate Chair and Professor, Department of radiation Oncology, College of Medicine – Jacksonville, University of Florida
		Advances in the Management of Lung Cancer by Proton Therapy	Professor Joe Y. CHANG, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA (MDACC); Clinical Section Chief, Thoracic Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, MDACC; Director, Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, MDACC
		Advanced Treatment Planning Techniques for Radiation Oncology: Proton Therapy vs. Conventional Radiation Therapy	Dr. Zuofeng Li, DSc Physics Director, University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, Jacksonville, FL, USA; Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine – Jacksonville, University of Florida
		Proton Beam Therapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma	Professor Nobuyoshi FUKUMITSU, MD Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Tsukuba, Japan
		Proton and Charged Particle Radiation for Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas	Professor Thomas F. DELANEY, MD Andres Soriano Professor, Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School; Radiation Oncologist, Department of Radiation Oncology; Medical Director, Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center; Co-Director, Centre for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
2013	28 October 2013	Scientific Seminar – Factors Affecting Accuracy in Proton Therapy	Professor Chee-Wai CHENG Director of Medical Physics Indiana University Health Proton Therapy; Center & Professor, Clinical Radiation Oncology Department, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
	19 April 2013	Scientific Seminar - Clinical Application and Advances in Proton Therapy	Dr. James W. Welsh, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
	6 March 2013	Scientific Seminar - Techniques of Proton Therapy and Clinical Applications	Dr. Zuofeng Li, DSc University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2012	21 May 2012	Scientific Seminar in Motion Management in Proton Therapy and Radiotherapy
		Topic: Motion Management in Proton Therapy	Dr. Ralf SCHNEIDER Center for Proton Therapy Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
		Topic: Treatment Verification in Motion Compensated Radiotherapy	Dr. Kin Yin CHEUNG Senior Medical Physicist Medical Physics and Research Department Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital

Academic Publications

Year	Published Research Papers
2019	Yang B, Geng H, Ding Y, Kong CW, Cheung CW, Chiu TL, Lam WW, Cheung KY and Yu SK. Development of a novel methodology for QA of respiratory gated and VMAT beam delivery using Octavius 4D phantom. Med Dosim. 2019; 44:83-90
2018	Zhou Y, Yuan J, Wong OL, Fung WW, Cheng KF, Cheung KY, Yu SK. Assessment of positional reproducibility in the head and neck on a 1.5-T MR simulator for an offline MR-guided radiotherapy solution. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2018;8(9):925-935. doi: 10.21037/qims.2018.10.03
2017	Choi HHF, Ho YW, Law YY, Wu PM, Cheung KY, Yu SK, "Quantification of the Increase in Risk of Pneumonitis and Ischemic Heart Disease Among Left Breast Cancer Patients Due to Megavoltage Imaging Beam in TomoTherapy," Med. Phys. 44, 2848 (2017)
	Wong OL, Yuan J, Yu SK, Cheung KY. Image quality assessment of a 1.5T dedicated magnetic resonance simulator for radiotherapy with a flexible radio frequency coil setting using the standard American College of radiology magnetic resonance imaging phantom test. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery 2017; Vol 7, No 2
	Yang B, Wong WKR, Geng H, Lam WW, Ho YW, Kwok WM, Cheung KY, Yu SK. Filmless methods for quality assurance of Tomotherapy using ArcCHECK. Medical Physics 2017; 44(1):7-16
2016	Yang B, Geng H, Kong CW, Lam WW, Cheung KY, Yu SK. Dose rate vs gantry speed test in RapidArc commissioning: a feasibility study using ArcCHECK. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2 (2016) 067003